Merry Christmas! Ale

Classification: spiced beer, extract

Source: Philip Gravel (pgravel@MCS.COM), r.c.b., 10/5/95

Here's one that I've shared and has gotten favorable comments.

Ingredients:

6.60 lb. Northwestern Gold LME
1.00 lb. Crystal 80L
0.25 lb. Chocolate
0.50 lb. Brown Sugar
0.50 lb. Honey
1.00 oz. Northern Brewer 7.8% 60 min
1.00 oz. Fuggles Leaf 3.8% 15 min
1 tsp cardamom
1-1/2 oz grated ginger
5 3" cinnamon sticks
Zest from rind of 4 large oranges
1-1/2 tsp Irish moss
3/4 c. Dextrose
Wyeast #1056 American ale yeast
Yeast nutrient

Procedure:

Prepare yeast starter. Crush specialty grains and steep for 15 min. Add LME, brown sugar, and bittering hops and begin boil. At 30 min, add honey, cinnamon, cardamom and ginger. At 15 min, add Irish moss, flavoring hops, honey, and orange zest. Cool, aerate and pitch yeast. Ferment at 70-74^F. Rack to a secondary after 7 days and store at 70^F. After another 14 days, bottle beer.

Specifics:

IBU (Rager): 28